By Eric Enge

I always like to see what types of link building things that people talk about and/or present. Based on some basic tips provided by Roger Montti in the “Blow Your Mind Link Building Techniques” session at SMX Advanced, this post will expand upon those to describe a specific link building plan that nearly any site can use.

Here is my expanded version of Roger’s tips on how to extract which .EDU sites link to a competitor of yours (or to an important company in your space). These commands work on either Yahoo or Microsoft Live Search, but not Google at this point:

linkdomain:domain-to-check.com site:.edu “resource”
linkdomain:domain-to-check.com site:.edu “directory”
linkdomain:domain-to-check.com site:.edu “bookmarks”
linkdomain:domain-to-check.com site:.edu “links”
linkdomain:domain-to-check.com site:.edu “favorite”

Using this technique you can find a ton of link targets to pursue, all from known linkers. You can expand upon this as you see fit too. For example, you can add the industry category name for products or services like yours to the list. You can also try this on .ORG sites. Once your brain gets going you can just keep going and going.

Original post at SEL